San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-02
EDITORIAL BREVITIEs.

picnic prOspers.
SAN ANTONIO is "a quiet after her
Fourth" as a picsniny whose seat Of
knowledge has been visited by the
maternal hand.
The fond dreamers who are making
merry anent, Growers march over the
Hill and on TO the White House" may
find the Hill little more rugged than
that Halpine obstruction which he so
easily removed two years since.
The pot OF perdition will simmer over
a hotter fire this July than Texas has
seen kindled in twenty years. This Is
not threat, but prophecy, and prOph-
coy Is more true than history.
THE corporations that spend all their
spare change in magnifying glasses with
which to discover notes in their neigh
boris eyes are generally blessed with a
generous beam in their own optics.
As THE dun war clouds roll away from
the eastern horizon, the cablegrams
grow fiat and stale. All that interests
centers around the coercion bill and the
fate of Ireland.
The eX-Oonfederate sOldiery have not
beeh ruflled a feather over this battle
flag fooIishness. They did not want the
hdSs ItluIutu anu now IL WOulu sttln
that Cleveland Ia the only man who
does. 1t will prove political Bull Run
to him.
The mothers who always have their
babies photographed on the Fourth OF
July, thank heaven for the discovery OF
the instantaneous process. AS for the
operators, they thank heaven therefor
daily.
Fort WORTH does not properly esteem
the services Of the guardians OF her his
toric half acre. Her police are minus
cash and their poor pittance is paid
them In Pantherville scrip, worth about
50 cents on the dollar. Another railroad
or two and the law and order battalion
would have to disbsnd.
WHEN the New York Voice. the great
prohibitiOnist organ acknowledged that |
prohibition did not prohibit In Maine, the |
big camp meeting up at Fort Worth |
broke out dolefully and walled the good |
old Methodist hymn: "Hark, from the |
Tombs doleful sound"
Col. J. Il. SCHARF has made valuable |
contribution 10 war literature, in his
work just issued, The Confederate
States Navy" 1t may stir the govern
ment up to do something for the United
States navy. II so, Col. Scharf will not
have written in vain.
POwDERLY thinks that when man ut
tiers incendiary threats against property
and inflammatOry harrangues against
life and personal liberty, IL is time to
shut him up without waiting for the
overt act OF the dynamiter. POwderly
had his eye and tongue on Herr Most
when uttering this truism.
The new laws that go into effect to.
day will find many an unconscious law
breaker. Some OF them seem so useless
that they must have been passed for no
other purpose than to entTap the feet Of
the unwary, and by multiplying offences
give a greater scope to those whose am
bitiOn it is to scoop in a law-bTeaker
WITH the Atlantic sea board ten de-
grees below average temperature and |
the Pacific coast ten degrees above,
there appears beneficent design on the
part of the weather clerk to check the
rush Of emigration to the California
coast. The gulf coast yartakes the cool
ness.
Judicious putting has turned capital |
to Kansas in such volumes seeking for |
investment that loans on first-class real |
property are negotiated readily at five |
and six per cent. With wOney at six |
per cent in Texas, the wheels of her |
progress would smoke with the accelera- |
tiOns OF her industries. At five per cent! |
my, wouldn't she have hot box.
DR.. MCGLYNN persists that Cardinal |
Gibbons has not made clean breast OF |
all that he knows concerning that Wash |
ingtOn nunciO. The nuncio may or may |
not come, but it Is tOlerabIy certain that |
McGlynn will go. The Catholic church |
cannot stand the presence OF man who |
teaches that she has no right in equity |
to the millions of landed estate which |
she holds.
The fastest time for mile in any run |
ming race has been made this year, l:40B. |
1t is true Ten Brock made 1900, but he |
made 1t in ii race against time, very |
different matter. Good hOrSemen think |
that JacObin's start was fully second |
and a half to his disadvantage in the |
race in which he crossed the wire in
l:40l, and that he can lower Ten BroeOk's
record In race against time. 1t Is an
awful pace.
The order to close all the theatres of
Paris until the improvements ordered
for exits, by the fire commissioners,
have been made, is likely to close many
of them permanently, so thinks Figaro.
and mOurns accordingly, 'rwere better
the fOOtlights should be forever eXtln-
guished than that the life lights CT hun
dreds should go out suddenly, as was 80
recently the case at tne Theatre
COmique.
GALVESTON Is in a state of betweenity
as to her reCOrdership and her mayor
atty. Her new charter abOlshes the re-
COrdership and makes it a side show to
the office of mayor, at one price Of adj
mission for both. Now comes the city
attorney and decides that the side show
IS whole circus by itself and that the
mayor can have paid dOOr-keeper
therefor if he wants it. The courts will
pass on the question. In the mean time
the municipal menagerie gives its daily |
performance to the usual band music &C
compartment.
OUR respected Uncle Samuel passed |
his one hundred and tenth birthday |
very quietly in this section. His age |
tells very lightly upon him as yet and |
there are no indications OF decreased |
strength or impaired vitality. As his |
boys and girls grow older there is a
growing sobriety about their methods |
and less fuss and parade noticeable |
in their way of doing honor to the old
gentleman's natal day, but there seems
to be no diminutiOn of that real respect
and deep affection in which he is held
by so many Of his numerous descend.
ants. 1t will no doubt be a source OF
considerable pleasure to his cousins
over the water, many of whom have bad
fears Of the strength of his constitution,
to learn that he was never in better
health, shows few signs of senility, was
never so confident of long life OF use
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